Quizlet

dwaxe : Extra Credit please

dwaxe : Please alert me of any typos...

SWorls : where is root list 2?

dwaxe : woops, haven't done root list 2

michaelyuan : how do you tell the difference between placid and tranquil...

michaelyuan : click click click click click click click click click click I love the cheat button!

dwaxe : What is your antipathy towards it? It is a benign little button, yet you must exacerbate and molest it. You should venerate the cheat button, or you will soon be an incorrigible young rapist.

SWorls : at all.

michaelyuan : I quit a long time ago, I just came back to check up on my ol' buddy the cheat button (jk)

lissazing : ahhhhhhh this is going to be wayyyy hard :/

bboy4life07 : haha can you lend me a little bit too?

michaelyuan : I put it in alphabetical order

michaelyuan : abet - - -to encourage or assist (usually an offense against justice or law) abhor - - -to regard with extreme repugnance; to detest utterly; to loathe abridge - - -to shorten, to diminish abstracted - - -removed in thought form the immediate situation, lost in one's own mind abstruse - - -difficult to understand, recondite, concealed accolade - - -praise, an award acquiesce - - -to give in, to comply acrimonious - - -caustic, bitter in nature adulation - - -extreme praise or admiration adversity - - -misfortune, unfavorable happening aesthetic - - -relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art affable - - -friendly, courteious, amiable affinity - - -a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship agile - - -characterized by ability to move quickly with suppleness or grace alacrity - - -prompt and cheerful response allure - - -to influence, sway, or entice with some tempting appeal aloof - - -apart, indifferent altruistic - - -unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others, generous ambiguous - - -having more than one meaning; unclear, uncertain ambivalent - - -having contrary feelings or attitudes, uncertain as to course of action ameliorate - - -to make better, to relieve, to improve amenable - - -open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable amiable - - -friendly, sociable, and congenial; civil and urbane amorphous - - -shapeless, having no definite form angular - - -lean; sharp-cornered; gaunt antidote - - -something that relieves the effects of poison antipathy - - -a dislike, distaste, or enmity antiquated - - -obsolete, out of fashion, no longer usable antithesis - - -a direct opposite, a contrast apathy - - -a lack of concern or feeling, indifference arable - - -fit for plowing, tillable archaic - - -antiquated, old, out of use arrogant - - -overbearingly assuming; insolently proud ascend - - -to move upward, to rise from a lower station ascendancy - - -domination; growing power ascertain - - -to find out definitely; to determine ascetic - - -one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury assuage - - -to ease, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm atrophy - - -to waste away, to wither audacity - - -excessive boldness, rashness, daring augment - - -to make greater or to supplement auspicious - - -favorable austere - - -strict, stern; unadorned autonomous - - -independent, self-contained aversion - - -strong disinclination, disliking banal - - -common, ordinary, lacking freshness, hackneyed belie - - -to contradict, to give a false impression benevolence - - -kindness, generosity, charity benign - - -not causing harm, of gentle disposition, beneficial bequeath - - -to hand down, to give or to leave in a will blasphemous - - -irreverent, profane bombastic - - -using inflated language, pompous buoyant - - -capable of floating; cheerful burgeon - - -to sprout, to newly emerge buttress - - -a support or prop cajole - - -to persuade with deliberate flattery, to coax, to wheedle calamity - - -a serious event causing distress or misfortune capricious - - -changing suddenly, fickle caricature - - -a portrayal where features are distorted, a parody charlatan - - -one who claims to know something that he does not, a quack chimera - - -a fantasy; a horrible creature of the imagination circumspect - - -careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent clandestine - - -secret conciliate - - -to reconcile, to pacify, to renew a friendship conflagration - - -a large fire contentious - - -quarrelsome, stirring controversy contrite - - -extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant cordial - - -courteous and gracious; friendly; warm corroboration - - -confirmation cosmopolitan - - -dealing with the whole world crass - - -coarse, crude, and unrefined credulous - - -believing on slight evidence, gullible culpable - - -deserving blame; guilty cursory - - -superficial, casual, hastily done daunt - - -to intimidate, to dismay dawdle - - -to waste time, to move in a lackadaisical manner, to spend time idly dearth - - -a lack, a scarcity debase - - -to reduce in dignity or quality debilitate - - -to weaken, to enfeeble decadent - - -decaying decry - - -to speak against, to disparage defamation - - -act of harming or ruining another's reputation deplete - - -to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value deplore - - -to regret deeply or strongly; to express or feel deep grief for depravity - - -moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act deprecate - - -to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval derision - - -scoffing at, mockery, ridicule desolate - - -deserted, without inhabitants, barren despotic - - -ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical didactic - - -instructive, designed to teach diffidence - - -shyness, reserve, unassertiveness din - - -loud and discordant noises, cacophony discern - - -to differentiate between two or more things discord - - -lack of agreement, tension, strife discrepant - - -disagreeing, inconsistent discursive - - -rambling, moving from one topic to another randomly disdain - - -intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy disparage - - -to degrade, to speak of someone or something in a derogatory manner disparity - - -inequality, the condition or fact of being unequal in age, rank, or degree dissemination - - -the act of spreading widely; scattering dissuade - - -to advise against, to talk out of distend - - -to expand, to swell docile - - -easily managed, obedient, passive dogmatic - - -strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner dormant - - -inactive, sleeping duplicity - - -double-dealing, hypocrisy eclectic - - -coming from a variety of diverse sources ecstasy - - -extreme happiness efface - - -to erase, to wear away effervescent - - -showing high spirits egocentric - - -self-centered, selfish elucidate - - -to make clear, to explain emaciated - - -very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wasting away embellish - - -to decorate, to make beautiful with ornamentation empathy - - -understanding or identification with another's feelings or situation empirical - - -based on observation or experiment and not on theory enervation - - -weakness engender - - -to cause, to produce, to create enhance - - -to make better to improve enigmatic - - -mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling enmity - - -absolute hatred entreaty - - -a plea, an earnest request ephemeral - - -lasting a short period of time, fleeting equivocal - - -ambiguous (usually intended to mislead) erudite - - -scholarly esoteric - - -understood only by a small group or a select few estrange - - -to alienate, to separate ethereal - - -heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible eulogy - - -praise or tribute (usually to a dead person) euphemism - - -substitution of an inoffensive term for one that is offensive euphonious - - -pleasant or agreeable sound; dulcet exacerbate - - -to aggravate, to irritate, to vex exonerate - - -to free from blame, obligation, or responsibility; to exculpate exotic - - -foreign, unfamiliar expeditious - - -done with speed and efficiency expunge - - -to remove, to erase extol - - -to praise, to glorify extraneous - - -not essential or vital extricate - - -to free, to disentangle fallow - - -inactive, plowed but not sowed fastidious - - -reflecting a meticulous or demanding attitude, critical to an extreme fatuous - - -foolish, silly in an obnoxious way, inane ferocity - - -savagery fervid - - -ardent, burning, impassioned fitful - - -irregular flourish - - -to thrive, to grow well forbearance - - -patience, lenience frivolous - - -lacking in seriousness or importance furtive - - -secret in an underhanded way, stealthy fuse - - -to mix or to join (usually by melting) galvanize - - -to stimulate or to excite as if by an electric shock garrulous - - -talkative, rambling gluttonous - - -greedy for food and drink gratuitous - - -given freely, unwarranted gregarious - - -sociable and outgoing guile - - -deceitfulness, duplicity haughty - - -arrogant, excessively proud and vain homogeneous - - -of the same kind humane - - -kind, compassionate, sympathetic and considerate hyperbole - - -obvious exaggeration hypocrite - - -one who is insincere or deceitful hypothesize - - -to reach a conclusion based on an assumption or something not proven immutable - - -unchanging impecunious - - -without money impervious - - -incapable of being entered or penetrated, not capable of being damaged impetuous - - -violent, hasty, rash, impulsive implacable - - -incapable of being appeased implausible - - -not believable inane - - -lacking significance, meaning, or point; silly, insipid incongruity - - -nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility incontrovertible - - -indisputable incorrigible - - -incapable of being reformed or improved indelible - - -cannot be removed, washed away, or erased indignation - - -anger as a result of something unjust indolence - - -laziness induce - - -to bring on or to bring about indulgent - - -lenient, especially toward oneself industrious - - -skillfully busy or occupied ineptness - - -lack of competence or judgement inert - - -unable to move or act, sluggish infallible - - -incapable of error infamous - - -having a reputation of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad ingrate - - -an ungrateful person ingratiate - - -to make an effort to gain good favor with someone inimitable - - -not able to be imitated innate - - -existing from birth, inborn innocuous - - -harmless, producing no injury inscrutable - - -difficult to understand, mysterious insipid - - -boring and stupid insolence - - -insulting or contemptuous behavior insularity - - -qualities of an island; narrow-mindedness of opinion intractable - - -stubborn, difficult to manage introspective - - -the quality of examining one's own mind or thoughts inundate - - -to flood, to overflow irascible - - -irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross laconic - - -using a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude lament - - -to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner languid - - -slow, sluggish, listless, weak laud - - -to praise, to extol lethargic - - -sluggish, languid levity - - -excessive frivolity, flippancy loathe - - -to detest lucid - - -easily understood, mentally sound luxuriant - - -abundant in growth, very fertile magnanimity - - -having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit malevolence - - -ill will or evil intentions malice - - -desire to harm others melancholy - - -depression of spirits meticulous - - -taking great care misanthrope - - -a hater of mankind miser - - -one who lives in wretched circumstances to save and hoard money mitigate - - -to cause to become less harsh, hostile or severe morose - - -being sullen or gloomy mundane - - -ordinary, commonplace munificent - - -very generous mutability - - -the degree to which something is subject and likely to change nefarious - - -extremely wicked, evil, vicious nullify - - -to cause not be in effect, to negate oblique - - -slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading obliterate - - -to remove all traces of, to do away with; to destroy completely; to cancel oblivion - - -state of being forgotten obscure - - -difficult to see, vague obsequious - - -overly attentive, like a sycophant, servile odious - - -deserving hate or condempt ominous - - -threatening opaque - - -not allowing the passge of light, not transparent, hard to understand opulence - - -wealth, affluence, abundance ornate - - -excessively decorated ostentatious - - -showy, pretentious pacifistic - - -opposed to war or use of force paltry - - -trifling; petty; worthless paradoxical - - -something that appears false of contradictory but is actually correct parochial - - -limited in range or scope, narrow, provincial paucity - - -scarcity, fewness of number, dearth pedantry - - -act of showing off learning in a manner that is needless and unimaginative penchant - - -a strong inclination penitent - - -showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant perfunctory - - -acting routinely with little interest or care perjury - - -false testimony under oath petulance - - -unreasonable touchiness or irritability piety - - -devotion and reverence to God placate - - -to appease or to pacify by making concessions placid - - -peaceful, calm plagiarize - - -to steal and use another's writings as one's own poignant - - -piercing, incisive, and keen pompous - - -exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance, bombastic ponderous - - -very heavy, unwieldy from weight prattle - - -meaningless sounds, babble precarious - - -dangerous, risky, not a secure situation preclude - - -to make impossible precocious - - -exceptionally early in development or occurrence predilection - - -preference pretentious - - -making an extravagant outward show, self-important procrastinate - - -to defer action; to delay prodigal - - -wasteful, a person given to extravagance profuse - - -extravagantly abundant, flowing freely proliferation - - -an increase in number, multiplication prolific - - -abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity prologue - - -introductory remarks in a speech, play, or literary work promontory - - -land or rock projecting into a body of water prosaic - - -commonplace, uninspired, banal protract - - -to prolong provincial - - -lacking sophistication, narrow-minded quiescent - - -inactive, dormant rancor - - -bitter deep-seated ill will, enmity raze - - -to completely destroy recant - - -to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke recluse - - -a person who lives in solitude, a hermit reiterate - - -to repeat replete - - -filled to capacity, abundantly supplied reprove - - -to scold or to rebuke for a misdeed usually with kindly intent repudiate - - -to reject, to disown, to disavow reticence - - -restraint in speech, reluctance to speak revere - - -to honor, to regard with respect sated - - -satisfied fully, indulged to excess scintillating - - -sparkling, shining, or flashing scrupulous - - -very principled, very careful and conscientious secular - - -nonreligious, worldly serene - - -calm, placid servile - - -overly submissive slothful - - -lazy, indolent soporific - - -something that tends to cause sleep and to dull awareness or alertness spontaneous - - -having no external cause, acting on impulse squalid - - -filthy in appearance, sordid static - - -having no motion, showing little change stoic - - -a stoical person; not showing passion or feeling, indifference, impassive strident - - -loud and harsh sounding stupefy - - -to dull the senses as to put into a stupor sublime - - -exalted, noble, uplifting subtle - - -delicate, elusive, not obvious suffrage - - -right to vote summon - - -to call together, to send for or to request to appear superfluous - - -beyond what is needed or required, an overflow surreptitious - - -secret, clandestine, stealthy sycophant - - -a self-serving flatterer, a brownnoser symmetry - - -balanced proportions synthesis - - -combining parts into a whole taciturn - - -quiet, not verbose tact - - -a keen sense for what is appropriate or tasteful in delicate situations terse - - -concise torpid - - -sluggish, inactive, dull toxic - - -poisonous tranquil - - -peaceful, calm, serene transient - - -quickly passing, fleeting transparent - - -quality of being able to be seen through, clear treachery - - -violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason trepidation - - -fear, trembling, agitation trivia - - -insignificant matters turbulence - - -wild or disturbing activity vacillating - - -changing, fluctuating venerate - - -to honor, to revere veracity - - -devotion to the truth verbose - - -wordy, very talkative vexation - - -discomfort or distress viable - - -capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately vigilant - - -very alert, watchful vilify - - -to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against vindicated - - -cleared of accusations or charges vindictive - - -revengeful, spiteful virtuoso - - -one skilled in the fine arts as an accomplished musician, a savant virulent - - -extremely poisonous; hateful vivid - - -bright, distinct, and clear volatile - - -quickly changeable, easily vaporized voluble - - -ability to use words easily, fluent and glib zeal - - -enthusiasm, fervor

michaelyuan : this one is slightly easier to read

lissazing : im soooooo not ready for this test